Music and Cats

“There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.” –Albert Schweitzer

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Afternoon walk with camera

November 20th, 2005 by Kimberly

After a trip to the farmers market, I took my camera out for a walk around our block. The fog and drizzle have made for poor raking weather, so our neighbors’ yards are layered with leaves, their colors ranging from cream to gold to blood red.

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Most of the blooms on our next door neighbor’s seven-foot mop-head hydrangea have aged from blue to pink. Only this single cluster of flowerettes, low on the north side of the bush, still retains its original color.

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For most of the year, our back-yard neighbor’s Japanese maples are clad in fluttering green lace. Each November, that lace canopy bursts into flames.

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  • 1 Marcia Nov 20, 2005 at 6:39 pm

    pretty pictures! I love the blue flowers…

    Michele sent me.

  • 2 dak-ind Nov 20, 2005 at 6:51 pm

    hello, i come from Michele’s.
    the pictures are great! i really liked the red leaves, such great fall color.

  • 3 Deana Nov 20, 2005 at 7:17 pm

    Lovely photos….visiting via Michele’s. I love your cat shot on your banner. It reminds me of my boy Darius, esp the white whiskers.

  • 4 srp Nov 20, 2005 at 7:46 pm

    What are the blue flowers? The third one is a Japanese maple isn’t it? All beautiful.

    My brother wanted to know my wish for Christmas. I was very tempted to tell him a new digital camera. But college money for Nyssa is much more practical. Your camera is really getting some great shots.

  • 5 Lynda Nov 20, 2005 at 9:35 pm

    Beautiful photos, Kim! I love hydrangeas… my grandmother had the biggest hydrangea plant I have ever seen, but it’s gone now. The Japanese maple is absolutely gorgeous, too!

  • 6 Sweetie Nov 21, 2005 at 10:57 am

    I arrived by way of your comment on Carmi’s site. Nice blog and beautiful photos! I so love Autumn!

  • 7 vicki Nov 21, 2005 at 6:54 pm

    Lovely photos. Your climate is clearly so much milder than ours- our leaves have been done and gone for several weeks now. I like the hydrangea!

  • 8 Mouse Nov 22, 2005 at 8:45 am

    Nice!

  • 9 janey Nov 23, 2005 at 11:19 am

    What beautiful flowers. I live in FL and after Wilma came through we have very few trees left. But the birds are back and the flowers are still here. It’s good look at the small things everynow and then. Like your first photo - the things that are right underneath our feet that we just don’t take the time to notice.

  • 10 Mouse Nov 23, 2005 at 5:05 pm

    Hey, today feels like a Friday! Feels like I ought to be looking at a cat.

  • 11 Denise Nov 23, 2005 at 7:26 pm

    I just discovered your blog, and love the photos. Your cats are beautiful.

  • 12 Janet Nov 27, 2005 at 8:27 pm

    Absolutely beautiful shots!